Zoe Kleinmann and a student make a pattern of light with translucent cups. Zoe Kleinmann and a student explore patterns. First they create units of two connected plastic cubes to create an AB pattern.

The common problems with bike lights seem miniscule until you’re riding down a moonless, unlit street and your light slowly goes from glowing white, to sad yellow, to nonexistent. Basically, you take ...

A team of physicists and engineers at China's Hefei National Laboratory has succeeded in conducting the first instance of precise absolute distance measurement over a path exceeding 100 km. The group ...

Last month, NASA released two global maps of the Earth at night—one taken in 2016, the other a revised version of a 2012 map. The satellite images showed our planet twinkling under the night sky, with ...

If you want to thrive in the dark, gloomy ocean depths then it certainly doesn't hurt to have a few tricks up your sleeve. Scientists have discovered two new species of fish that can expand an ...

Traditional fiber-optic communication sends data using just one light pattern. That’s fine, but it means the amount of bandwidth that a fiber strand can deliver is limited. If you could add more light ...